The Distracted Gamer

Two weeks ago my wife gave birth to our fourth child Sabrina.  She & mum are healthy & well, but this has been seriously cutting into my game playing time!

On the upside, a friend has given me his old Playstation (the first one) with a bunch of games including Oddworld & Gran Turismo, so when I do get some time I’m going to be having a great old time!

I’m back at work now too after two weeks off, so everything is getting back to normal.  There’s an enormous amount of feeds in FeedDemon for me to catch up on, so lot’s of news to read.

Welcome, this is The Distracted Gamer.  Like the majority of gamers, I’m (well) over 18, I’m also married, a parent (of 3, soon to be 4), and an employee.  I’m also a freelance programmer & blogger. 

And I’m a gamer.

I love computer games.  I’ve been playing them for years and years.  I can still remember sitting down as a kids with my dad’s old monochrome (orange & black FTW!) Toshiba laptop playing Moon Patrol.  One of my favourite all time games was Wonder Boy 3 on the Sega Master System

A few years back when the first Xbox came out, I pretty much dismissed getting one, we couldn’t afford it.  But my wife, wonderful woman that she is, secretly organised with all my friends and relatives to put in and they got me the Halo pack Xbox for Christmas.  I pretty much didn’t get anything else that year, but I didn’t care, it was awesome.

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